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Featured: Black Interest

One house . . . one robbery . . . one mistake . . . sexual intrigue and violence intermingle in this tense urban thriller.

A modern-day King Lear, a novel of greed, resentment, jealousy, betrayal, and romance set in Trinidad, Jamaica, and Barbados.

Excerpts from our three May releases: Every Boy Should Have a Man by Preston L. Allen, The Family Mansion by Anthony C. Winkler, and the second installment in the Open Lens imprint, The Roving Tree by Elsie Augustave.

9/23/17, 12:00pm

Join Eric Morse for the New York launch of What is Hip-Hop? at Bluestockings Bookstore.

9/23/17, 5:30pm

The Book of Harlan Wins 2017 American Book Award!

A huge congratulations to Bernice L. McFadden for winning the 2017 American Book Award for her latest novel The Book of Harlan! This is in addition to winning the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction), and being named a Washington Post Notable Book of 2016.
“The Terrible Twos” by Ben White
“Smoked” by Brandon Dutton
“Papa Jumbie” by Joanne C. Hillhouse
“A Summer Underwater” by Evelyn Sharenov